lacquer

• Both the Mazarin Chest and the Van Diemen Box mark the beginning of the trade in Japanese lacquer of the "Fine Period" that had a great influence on the decorative arts in Europe for more than 200 years. —  Art Knowledge News
• Not much meets the eye - there's some wood, lacquer, the printed labelling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser. —  Atlas Shrugs
• Enriched with inlay of mother of pearl, the effect of which is in some cases heightened and rendered more effective by some transparent coloring on its reverse side, as in the case of a bird's plumage or of those beautiful blossoms which both Chinese and Japanese artists can represent so faithfully A very remarkable screen in Chinese lacquer of later date is in the South Kensington Museum; it is composed of twelve folds each ten feet high, and measuring when fully extended twenty-one feet. —  Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time
• On the mantelpiece there is a large clock in Chinese lacquer, ornamented with gilt bronze, made on a model sent out from Paris in the reign of Louis Quatorze, and representing the Flight of the Hours pursued by Time Adjoining the great drawing-room is a boudoir upholstered in light gray silk damask, with bouquets of flowers. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
• The Emperor's sleeping-room, the only part of the building in which there was a fireplace, was ornamented with wainscoting in Chinese lacquer work, then very old, though the painting and gilding were still fresh, and the cabinet was decorated like the bedroom; and all the apartments, except this, were warmed in winter by immense stoves, which greatly injured the effect of the interior architecture. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon

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